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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WM. S. GARR, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

` WATER-CLOSET.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 20,142, dated May 4, 1858.

To @ZZ 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lViLLrAM S. CARR, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new anduseful Improvement in later-Closets; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the construct-ionand operation of my invention, reference being had to the annexeddrawing, making part of the specification, in which a frontview of awatercloset is represented, and the handle and rod are shown in section.

My said invention applies to t-hose water closets that are worked by aIhandle coming through the seat, and provided wit-h a lever acting on thepan that sets up against the bot-tom of the basin, usually termed thepan closets. In this character of closet, the concave ring or cupthrough which the rod from the handle passes, has been set on a columnbolted to the hopper of the closet and connected to the said ring or cupnear one side, the consequence of which has often been that thecarpenter in fitting the seat onto the closet nds great difficulty inmaking the wood work come to the top edge of said cup; sometimes it istoo high and the cup has to be let into the wood some distance, or elsetho (up projects above the seat, and a carpenter will often turn saidcup partially around on its column to bring said cup to the hole he hasmade in the seat, and thus the rod will be brought out of line with thelever.

The nature of my said invention consists in attaching the aforesaidconcave ring or cup to the upper end of a hollow column through whichthe rod to the lever passes, said cup being attached by a screw in sucha manner that the varying thicknesses of the seat can be accommodatedand the parts kept properly and firmly in place.

In the drawing a, is the soil pipe, b, the

hopper, c, the basin, CZ, the seat, c, the pan, shown by dotted lines,and set on the spindle f. g is the locking cam on said spindle f, takinga pin on the lever 71 that is set on a ulcrum 2'. These parts thus farare constructed and operate in the usual and well known manner andtherefore need not be further described.

7c, is a projection from the hopper c, through which the lower end ofthe hollow column Z, passes, and is secured by a nut n, and this columnis to be centrally over the lever h.

m, is the cup or concave ring connected to the column Z by a screw at o,by which the ring can be screwed down onto the column until said cup orring is Hush with the top of the seat and rests in the opening providedfor it.

p is a rod with a handle q on its upper end and a fork and roller s atits lower end. Said roller works in a slot 1, in the lever h. A washeris provided as at l, to render the rod y) noiseless in its movement whendrawn up for emptying the pan e.

The operation and advantages of my improvement will be apparent from theore going without recapitulation.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is- The concave ring or cup m screwed onto thehollow column Z, in the manner and for the purposes specified, when thisis used for passing the rod to the lever of pan water closets,substantially as specied.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature, before thesubscribing witnesses, this twentieth day of April 1858.

WILLIAM S. CARR.

Witnesses:

LEMUEL W. SERRELL, THOMAS Gr. HAROLD.

